This makes me think that perhaps Hinduism-- perhaps most religions, for that matter--- has the same kind of framework of natural law as is used in the West. The idea is that people are designed to do particular things. They don't always do those things-- nad in Christianity, they never do them perfectly--- but if they do something else, the results will be bad. Everybody has some sense of their nature, but we often choose to go against our nature, even knowing it is wrong so to do.

This is as opposed to the idea that any person can make any choice he wants, without ill consequence-- that we can make our own lives and moralities. I'm not sure I'm making sense here, though, so I'll stop. Perhaps it would be useful to find something that relates karma to natural law and to liberalism more carefully.